ELLSWORTH
Stanislaw given 28-year sentence for sex crimes
Prior conviction taken into account during sentencing

By FAITH DeAMBROSE
Theodore Stanislaw, 51, of Blue Hill will spend nearly three decades behind bars after pleading guilty Wednesday, January 27, to nine of the 19 counts he initially faced for sexually molesting five girls between the ages of 10 and 14.

Stanislaw was convicted of three Class B counts, one Class C count and five Class D counts pertaining to five victims in events spanning from 2004 through 2008. For those crimes, he was sentenced in Hancock County Superior Court by Justice Kevin Cuddy to 30 years in jail, with two years suspended, immediately followed by four years of probation. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $1,500 when released from prison in 2038. Upon release Stanislaw must register as a sex offender and avoid contact with the victims or their families; he will be restricted from having contact with anyone under the age of 16.

According to Hancock County Assistant District Attorney Mary Kellett, Stanislaw did not have a jury trial. Instead he responded to nine counts in what is called an open plea, whereby the defendant pleads guilty and leaves the sentencing to the judge. Kellett said the nine counts were agreed upon by both attorneys and represented counts specific to each of the five victims. The victims were all known to Stanislaw, and many of the instances of inappropriate sexual contact occurred either at his residence or in his vehicle, according to court documents.

Before the sentencing, Kellett said that the victims and their families were given the opportunity to speak, as was a specialist in the treatment of sex offenders who had been working with Stanislaw for the last year. Kellett said that while the argument was made by Stanislaw’s therapist that treatment would be more effective than prison, the judge did not agree, issuing a sentence that Kellett called “significant.”

Taken into account during sentencing, said Kellett, was the fact that Stanislaw had been previously convicted of a felony sexual offense involving a girl under the age of 11 in New York state in 1982. Kellett said that according to the records she was able to obtain from New York state, it did not appear as if Stanislaw faced any jail time for the previous conviction, and was given five years of probation which ended early.

Stanislaw was initially arrested by Maine State Police on November 6, 2008, on three counts of unlawful sexual contact stemming from incidents alleged to have occurred in 2004. After his initial arrest, four additional victims came forward to press charges.

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